Some samples of our experiments and performances

For full description and credits of performances, please visit our Performances page.

Excerpt of AI Sensorium, Act III at ODC Theater, 2020.

The electromyography device detects the electrical activity of muscle tissue and represents it as sound, driving the vibration of large metal panels.

Choreography by Daiane Lopes da Silva, Sound and interactive design by Patricia Alessandrini. Performance by Samuel Melecio-Zambrano and Julia Rubies Subiros (wearing electromyography device to trigger sound). Set design: Michale Koehle.

Excerpt of Resonant Frequencies at ODC Theater, 2019.

Biometric data is collected in real time from dancer’s bodies and translated into music and visual design.

Direction: Weidong Yang and Daiane Lopes da Silva. Choreography: Daiane Lopes da Silva in collaboration with dancers. Dancers: Hien Huynh, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Nathaniel Moore, Juliet Paramor, Hannah Wasielewski Visual art: Weidong Yang. Composer: Tim Russell. Installation: Tanja London.

Nominated for Outstanding Visual design by The Izzie’s Awards.

MOCAP - Motion Capture - Full body suite that digitally records the movement data, exaggerating internal states of the performer.

Excerpt of MESH, 2017. Choreography by Daiane Lopes da Silva in collaboration with dancers. System design and digital art by Travis Bennett. Performance by Juliet Paramor. Original music by Ben Juodwalkis.

“What Does the Bot Say to the Human?”, 2017. Installation by Jyiai Young, Weidong Yang and Shih Wen. With its multiple phases, this work transforms the 2016 United States Presidential Election Twitter data into a large-scale installation to probe the question of how artificial intelligence (AI) via social media assumes form and transforms the shaping of the future of a nation.

Digital Painting - Raymond Larrett and Shoshana Green made Butoh meet live painting during our Dance Hack in 2016.

Dance Hack happens every December at CounterPulse, SF. Please, visit our Dance Hack Page for more information about this event.

Our incredible team of scientists and designers - Weidong Yang, Sonny Green, Travis Bennett and Raymond Larrett created this app for UC Berkeley in 2016. Citizen Dance shines the spotlight on the thriving dance culture on campus and celebrates dance as an essential part of public life and culture at UC Berkeley. In each of the three performance locations the app will release content unique to that performance with options for audience engagement.

Touch Screen, 2015 is developed by scientists and visual artist Weidong Yang. A wall was transformed into a giant touch screen through 3D depth sensor. Dancers interact with the fluid dynamics simulation to create live visualization.

Time Lapse, 2015 - Experiments at Kinetech Arts Open lab.

Participants: Raymond Larrett, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Esha Nambiar, Erin Alexi Huestis and Megan Meyers.

Slit Scan, 2016 developed by Weidong Yang.

The real slit scan is an instrument for measuring ultra fast event in Physics laboratory. We adopted it for distortion of reality.

Daiane Lopes da Silva and Weidong Yang having fun with salsa and Slit. I guess we can call it Slit Salsa.

Markov Chain experiment in choreography.

Lecture at LASER at USF. Excerpt of State Space 2 Choreographed for Robert Mose’s Kin.

Interactive Remote Ink, 2016 - A prototype of remote movement triggering ink simulation.

Dancer: Anastasia Kostner. Prototype implemented by Weidong Yang. Implemented in Openframeworks with ofxFluid addon.

Time Bubble, 2015 - creating fictitious environments where they ponder the multi-mode of reality, segmenting and reconnecting space and time using their movements and actions to activate a “digital bubble” that acts like a portal to the past, present, and future.

The following sections are in progress… we are updating this page. Thanks for your patience! Come back later!

Streak camera, 2015.

Markov Chain, 2014

FRACTAL MACHINE, 2014

MOSAIC, 2014

SILKWORM, 2014

AP camera, 2014.